· Public charity
American Council of Learned Societies
The advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 153 grants below total $17,423,224 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $23,436,774 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,013,550 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $575k
- $50k–250k114 grants · $13M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC | $1,232,000 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $577,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $546,425 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $452,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $315,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $311,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN | $269,933 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $234,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $199,000 |
| HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $192,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $186,983 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE | $182,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $180,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $173,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
206 repeat relationships — 91 still active in FY2025, 115 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC8× · 2018–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +78%
University of Chicago9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +56%
Northwestern University9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- EFEEPS Foundationone grant, 2024 · $458k · 90% of their budget
- TCTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS2× · 2018–2021 · $289k · revenue -63%
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $204k · revenue +24%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University and the most unlike its peers is Sally and Charlie Cheever Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
318 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 318 of the 452 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds THE CITY COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Whittier College ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · World Learning Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Council of Learned Societies funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.